FCA warns against clone of Finalto
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued a warning against a clone of institutional trading and liquidity services firm Finalto.
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued a warning against a clone of institutional trading and liquidity services firm Finalto.
The Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) today issued a warning against a fraudulent website abusing the name of CMC Markets.
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) has recently detected new cases of fraudulent impersonation of its website.
Tokyo-based online brokerage Monex Group is warning the public of a number of websites abusing its credentials.
The US National Futures Association (NFA) has learned of a potentially malicious copycat domain: “cases-nfa.futures.org.”
A number of other Forex industry websites were fooled by the FCA warning, thinking that it was actually IC Markets itself which was warned.
One of the currently warned sites, monecor.eu, seems to be a clone of properly-licensed Monecor (Europe) Ltd.
The SMFXVIP brand and website appears to be a clone of SMFX.com. The real SMFX is a trading name of Scope Markets Ltd.
The FCA said to be aware that scammers may give out other false details or mix these with some correct details of the registered firm.
The latest FCA clone site has been set up at www.thefca.net. The FCA stated that it is currently working to get the page taken down.